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8541 Don’t use Lucida Sans. It only has Latin-1 demetris "Lucida Sans only has Latin-1 and 242 glyphs. The first proper Windows font in the admin stylesheets, Verdana, has 913 glyphs and also supports Greek and Cyrillic.
Since Lucida Sans is before Verdana in the stylesheet, and since Lucida Sans is not uncommon on Windows systems, in the Greek interface I see blocks of text in mixed fonts. For example, pieces like this one, from Reading Settings:
Η κωδικοσελίδα του ιστολογίου σας (συνιστούμε UTF-8)
I suppose the same will be the case in languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet.
Also, the colour of these descriptions (#999) is too light, even for extraneous or unimportant information, which “.setting-description” pieces are not.
I’m submitting a patch that removes Lucida Sans instances, changes the #999 of some classes to #666, and also moves a Bitstream Vera Sans that had been left before Verdana.
PS. Lucida Sans has another problem in Greek text: it includes one single Greek character (pi), which appears in Greek text in the midst of the glyphs of the first fallback font producing a sight singularly ugly! Seriously! :-)" defect (bug) closed normal 2.7 UI 2.7 normal fixed has-patch